Sharing the Holy Meal is a Virtue of Pastafarianism. I propose that each Pastafarian donates to their local Food Bank as they can afford in honour of Holiday, in the form of pasta and / or sauce. Other food-type charitable donations in His Noodly Name are welcomed; we'll convert based on dollar value or whatever else we can figure out.

If we can figure out how many individual spaghetti noodles are in a bag of spaghetti, we can aim for a goal of 1 000 000 noodles!

Please donate what you can for those who must go without pasta, and post here to keep a tally of our contributions in His Noodly Name. I might even be able to talk the Admins into awarding the title of Pasta Philanthropist Extraordinare to the person with the biggest donation, but do it for His Noodlyness, not for the title!

*so far this is the first goat (cheese) donation, so I'll assign a noodle equivalent at 1g = 1 noodle. Since cheese costs MUCH more than pasta, I'm probably short-changing amenabletopasta, and have added a 10,000 noodle bonus for sustainable pastability (and meatball potential). The conversions are on page 4. Numbers are rounded to the nearest 100 noodles.

Unfortunately Spaghetti-O's are seen as an abomonation in the sight of FSM. However, for the purposes of donating cans of it to charity/food banks, they are a viable option and FSM applauds your charitable demeanor and actions.

The venerable Dr. has issued forth a worthy challenge. I accept the duty on my part and will also contribute some higher quality jarred sauce (after all, what's pasta w/o sauce?). I know it's not the same as home-made, but then, that's harder to donate and I don't know whether a food bank will accept home-jarred products.

You know, Bobby needs to market FSM Pasta and Sauce! What a concept!! I get dibs on bringing forth the idea (unless someone can document and point out an earlier date where this idea has been proffered). Oh, the marketing slogan pastabilities!!!

Am clearing out my freezer as it's all five years old. Sure there's some sauce pots in there. Rushing off to donate right now. Put me down for 2 sauce pots and one noodle (I need my noodles right now so can only spare one).

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I'm going for the virtuous and anonymous option, although I might print out a pamphlet and slip it in the bags with the donations. I'd say anyone making an exceptionally large donation may want to do so on behalf of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

Perhaps we can print out the greeting card to include with the donation? That shouldn't be too offensive to anyone.

EDIT: Printed out a page of the cards (9/page) to include as small gift tags in the bags. Will put the url for www.venganza.org on the backside. Might as well spread the word a little. I think we have an Interfaith Food Bank here... persons donating to a single-faith foodbank may want to be a little more tactful.

What if someone, like one person, donated a million noodles? Wouldn't that mean you'd printed too many gift tags? Surely we should be fighting to save waste at this time of year?

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Then we'll go for 2 million! I figure I can use them for other things too... posting on bulletin boards etc. I had a choice of sizes... 9 seemed like enough. I only printed ONE page, mind you... less would have been wastefull!

We just need to figure out how many spaghetto's in a bag... Griffin, perhaps some extraordinary googling would help?

No it's worse than that. One hoop does not necessarily equal one noodle. We need to appoint a whole Science Team for this.

Incidentally, I tried googling "many spaghetto's in a bag" but it broke the rule and didn't even get one hit anyway.

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I just took a look at a 1 lb box of spaguetti (Barilla if you must know) and I estimate ~500 noodles in a box, assuming that there are not many broken. As an approximation 2000 boxes would reach the goal of 1 million noodles.

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